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The Peelamedu constabulary connected Sunday (May 31, 2026) arrested 3 persons connected complaint of possessing implicit 20 grams of synthetic cause methamphetamine successful Coimbatore.
The arrested were identified arsenic M. Jaikishan (21) of New Siddhapudur, M. Shyam (26) of Ponni Nagar astatine Pappanaickenpalayam and K. Senthurpandi (32) of P.M. Samy Colony astatine Rathinapuri.
Sources said that the 3 persons were traced to a determination adjacent the Regional Transport Office astatine Peelamedu Pudur connected Sunday, based connected circumstantial accusation that they were engaged successful alleged merchantability of the synthetic drug.
A squad from the Peelamedu presumption apprehended them and seized a small implicit 20 grams of methamphetamine, which falls successful the intermediate quantity class for the drug. They were arrested nether antithetic Sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Sources said Jaikishan had been pursing his bachelors successful Mechanical Engineering astatine a backstage engineering assemblage connected Avinashi Road successful Peelamedu. They added that the cause was being sold, chiefly to assemblage students, for a complaint ranging from ₹6,000 to 7,000 per gram. Remand process for the 3 persons was nether mode precocious connected Sunday.
